2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (713+ words) Point Park University officials believe their acquisition of the former CVS building on Forbes Avenue and Smithfield Street in Downtown Pittsburgh can set off a chain reaction of growth and activity along that corridor. The Downtown school announced the $1.7 million…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (430+ words) The requirement takes effect at the start of the 2027-28 school year. Shapiro signed House Bill 1505 ceremonially alongside Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis. It had already been incorporated into the state's 2026-27 budget earlier this year. WHYY reported that HB 1505 directs the state…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (831+ words) Quaker Valley School District officials want to reevaluate finances and projections for the proposed high school project as time and inflation increase. The district has been working on a new home for students in grades 9-12 for the past several years....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (76+ words) SCRANTON, LACKWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Shapiro Administration has awarded $123.4 million to the Scranton School District as part of a three year progress plan to fund schools around Pennsylvania, according to a press release by the administration. SCRANTON, LACKWANNA COUNTY…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (464+ words) SCRANTON — Jennifer Telesco sees the impact of increased state funding on the faces of students as they achieve their goals and embrace new opportunities. The former first grade teacher at John Adams Elementary School — who now serves as president of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (506+ words) Drexel University announced Tuesday that the Academy of Natural Sciences museum will close permanently on September 30, as reported by WHYY, ending nearly two centuries of public exhibitions along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The closure comes just short of the institution's…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) The School District of Philadelphia will launch a program this school year that pays community members, including parents, to serve as ambassadors tasked with boosting attendance and lowering dropout rates at struggling schools. Few details about the Parent and Community…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (495+ words) Philadelphia students returned to school this week facing new limits on smartphone use, as Pennsylvania moved to require districts to restrict phone access during the school day. The state-level push gives individual schools the latitude to choose their own enforcement…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (758+ words) The School District of Philadelphia is rolling out a digital hall pass system to all schools for the 2026-27 academic year, giving administrators a new tool to monitor student movement and, the district hopes, prevent fights on campus. The system runs…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1562+ words) HARRISBURG — Two weeks before the start of classes at his all-boys charter school near Pittsburgh, founder Darryl Canady received an email from his local public school district saying it wouldn’t provide traditional bus rides to his students this year. Instead,…...